ok, um stop talking about scratches and stuff. It doesn't matter what brand of MP3 player you have, if you take care of it, like you should, it will look good after years of use. There are also these skins you can buy for any brand of MP3 player. It's a polymer sheet coating made by 3M. Totally clear, very thin, but you could seriously stab it with a knife over and over and the scratch on the skin will brush right off, and it will still look just like new.

As far as the interface goes. How much more straight forward can you get than the iPods interface. I mean......I've never seen anyone stare at an iPod and say "I can't figure out how to work this thing."

If I were to get an mp3 player...I'm leaning towards the zune. Not that I don't think Ipod isn't great. The Zune fits my personality better, more modern in my opinion, and the design is flawless. I like how Ipod has much more products and accessories though. When you buy music points from Microsoft, they eat up every extra penny you dont spend.

I think people just give biased views on stuff. Such as, iPod's more popular so that must mean that 'Zune sucks' or what have you..

Actually, I say "ZUne sucks" because it's main function, the whole "share music with your friends" thing, is entire worthless and a load of crap. That and the drivers for it's software are complete garbage.

i recently got the halo 3 zune (on reserve of course) and am looking forward to it i hate my gens ipod lack of battery life and i just hate itunes in general been using the zune program for my 360 for awhile so already know the program pretty well